The intergative complexity of Jataka Stories
* Correspondence: Nguyen Huu Nghia (email: mr.minhphong6@gmail.com)
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Abstract
Unlike most of the collections of the popular folk tales, Jataka has a model of tales in performing contexts. This grat work was coherently and cohesively constructed by gathering, restructuring and transforming hundreds of tales in the world. This paper offters and analysis of the integratrive complexity of Jataka Tales in terms of ethics, character system and logical argumentative presentation. Hereby, the paper provides a partial view of the features and roles of folktales in context.
Keywords:
Jataka, performing contexts, complexity, ethical theme, character system, logical argumentative presentation
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